There’s one on the pioneering Memphis record label Stax. These are significant factors, Neal suggests, especially when looking at “artifacts that might be thought of as literal afterthoughts-as culture not in need of curation.” As chapters diverge in theme and latitude, the book assumes the feel of a mixtape. The digital frontier transformed what an archive looks like, how it functions, where it lives, and who gets access to it. Black culture is the most influential cultural generator of this time-so what is being done to safeguard how we remember all that is created? According to Mark Anthony Neal, an academic at Duke University, these are critical “issues related to the production, circulation, and archiving of Blackness-concerns that are exponentially heightened in the digital era.” In Black Ephemera, Neal conducts an impressive symphony of memory work. There’s a catch-22 that comes with being the primary root of creative labor in the world: With singular impact comes the very real danger of disparagement, theft, and all-out erasure. Despite its sordid-seeming subject matter, The Dolphin House is a true heartbreaker. Schulman-whose excellent 2018 novel, Theory of Bastards, also features a female researcher developing a close relationship with her animal subjects-is a daring and original writer.

( Hustler magazine even devoted a cover to the story.) Audrey Schulman’s The Dolphin House achieves something remarkable by recasting this kooky, salacious chapter in American science into a melancholy psychological drama. But the work was soon overshadowed by the revelation that, well … she gave the dolphin handjobs.

(He even injected dolphins with LSD.) As part of Lilley’s unconventional project, a young research assistant named Margaret Howe Lovatt moved into a specially built house with an adolescent dolphin named Peter and attempted to teach him English, with remarkable success. Lilley, an enthusiastic proponent of LSD and sensory deprivation tanks, led an attempt to establish interspecies communication with dolphins in the 1960s. Out of all the scientific scandals of the past century, John Lilley’s experiments on dolphins might just be the most colorful.

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